Song and Dance
(contributed by Fred Tryster)
The Unofficial School Song
Don't believe
it, don't believe it
It's a pack of bloody lies
If it weren't for the Teachers
It would be a paradise
Build a
bonfire, build a bonfire
Put the Teachers on the top
Put the prefects in the middle
And burn the bloody lot
Peter Ernest and Henry Krum formed a singing group with the original name of "Pete & Dud". Once our Hebrew class went out to the Skolnik oval, and they performed songs with an Israeli theme. One of them was about an Arab and his family. This is the only verse I remember:
The Arab's wife was Shmits, name was
Shmits
The Arab's wife was Shmits, name
was Shmits
The Arab's wife was Shmits, 'cause
she had two great big... LIPS
The Arab's wife was Shmits, name
was Shmits
This is their version of Jerusalem of Gold:
Yerushalayim shel Pete & Dud
V'shel nechoshet Pete & Dud
Halo lechol shirayich
(Peter solo) Ani Pete
(Henry solo) Ani Dud
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Miss Ring left in the middle of Form 4 to move to South Africa or South America (she eventually went to both, but I don't remember the order). Her farewell party included a tape recording of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" accompanying a dance routine performed by Eva Krauskopf, Roslyn Slonim, Naomi Medding, Karen Apterman, and two other girls (who perhaps will come forward when they read this), wearing sports uniforms with short skirts. I know there were six of them, because at the end of the song, they turned around and flipped up the skirts, revealing that each girl had sewn onto her bloomers one letter of the closing phrase, "OH WOW!" By popular demand, they repeated the performance
Number 96
play performed by 4-6 (written by Irving Birch)
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